Apparently, the "Santelli-inspired Tea Parties" have become the "rage." And they are growing.

In my last article on this subject, "Second American Revolution?," I explained why these "tea parties" do not constitute and will not bring about a revolution, because liberty and truth cannot be promoted using the methods of leftists and statists.

A real revolution is needed, however. As I said in that article, "nothing short of an all-out revolt" can save America from sliding into socialistic totalitarianism. So what would a real revolution look like?

What it could look like is a civil war, or a violent coup, both of which are the worst ways to bring about a revolution, almost always ending up with something worse than what is being revolted against.

If a revolution is to happen it must be my means of deliberate action by those against whom this government's tyranny is directed, which is everyone who is responsible for their own life and lives entirely by means of their own productive effort. It is you, the ever decreasing number of productive members of American society who are the only real victims, and it is you this government needs to finance its schemes.

The government produces nothing of value, and most politicians have never produced one thing of value in their lives. All they have, all that they use to finance their ever growing power, all that they redistribute comes from your productive efforts. You are the ones who are financing everything this government does. You are the slaves of the state and it is your productive efforts that are paying for the chains that bind you.

There are a number of different ways a real revolution can be brought about by the slaves. These are some of them:

1. A tax revolt. While I personally have little faith in "organized" anything, a true tax revolt would have to be organized at least to ensure that enough people would agree to do it. If ten or fifteen people just refuse to pay their taxes, they will simply end up in jail. If a whole state, or two, or more, or several million people all refuse to pay any Federal taxes, the government may try to make examples of some of them, but really could do nothing about it. It would be risky. It would be dangerous. It might be costly. For some individuals it might even cost them all their freedom. But what do you think a real revolution is? Marching around in the street, carrying signs and shouting. A revolution is not a football rally. The men who brought about the first American Revolution risked everything, because they understood the value of freedom, and the price of it.

If you want to have a real Boston type Tea Party, on April 15, every American should take their form 1040, write a bit "T" for "taxes" on it, and throw it in the ocean. That would be a real act of revolt, not like the hollow symbolism of wearing a teabag.

2. A strike. It is your productive effort that is feeding the monster whom you serve. This parasitic beast called government depends on your continued productive effort. The monster will never take all you produce, even a monster knows the slaves have to eat. This monster only wants to take your "surplus," to confiscate what your productive skills and business ability make it possible for you to produce over and above what the monster decides you need.

The way to destroy the monster, however, is not fight it, but to starve it. If you choose to fight the monster you will lose, and probably die.

But you are a productive individual, and because you want to achieve all you can, and be free to enjoy it, you will keep finding ways to produce more, and the monster knows it can depend on you to continue feeding it. What you must understand is this, so long as the monster is growing and thriving on the product of your effort, you will never be free to keep and enjoy all you produce, and no matter how hard you work, or how much you produce, the oppression of the monster will grow until it takes it all you produce in the end.

There is only one way to starve the monster. Even though it is against your nature, and though you can never cease to produce, you must not continue to feed the beast. You must go on strike. Continue to work but make it work that produces no more than you can consume, or otherwise protect from the monster's voracious appetite.

A strike does not have to be organized, but does have to be participated in by enough people to leave nothing or little for the government to confiscate. It is better than a tax revolt, because there will be nothing to tax. But it will also be a costly revolt. It will mean countless individuals voluntarily giving up lucrative businesses or jobs. It may mean great sacrifice in terms of life-style, and men with many productive years ahead retiring early. Some could move their businesses offshore or become expats themselves. Anything that prevents what you produce ending up in the grubby hands of the tyrannical government now sitting in Washington will help starve the beast.

A strike won't work unless some of the biggest companies in the country voluntarily close their doors. If there are not enough business men with the guts, foresight, and love of freedom to do this, there will be no revolution, and, in they end, their businesses will be closed anyway, and they all will be enslaved together.

3. Civil disobedience. I don't mean the kind carried out by rabble-rousing trouble making leftist demonstrators. I mean the kind that ignores the dictates of an illegitimate government. Of course a tax revolt is a kind of civil disobedience, but for civil disobedience to be an effective revolution it has to be much broader and bolder.

First, ignore all the laws, especially the new ones that are meant regulate CO₂ and other new ones like the absurd business killing CPSIA.

If everyone ignores these laws, some may be prosecuted, but the government cannot cover them all. Obeying the laws allows the government to quietly destroy businesses and the economy by its oppression voluntarily complied with. By disobeying the law, the government will be forced to show its hand, the secret no one wants to admit—the governments real power is in its threat of force and the thugs it hires to implement it.

This does not have to be organized at all. If there is something you want to do, just do it. Don't seek or ask for any bureaucrat's permission or approval. Don't ask if it is legal (it almost surely isn't), only if it is the right thing to do. Most government power resides in intimidation, and the cowardice of the people. When people realize a governments power comes from them and simply refuse to obey, the power of government is broken. If it is not done now, it never will be.

4. Secession. According to the Legal Dictionary secession is "The act of withdrawing from membership in a group," something I'll personally never have to do, because I never join anything.

The rest from the Legal Dictionary shows the kind of assumed thinking that modern education makes it impossible to shake, because shaking it requires using one's ability to reason, and today's educators have carefully destroyed that ability. It says:

"Secession occurs when persons in a country or state declare their independence from the ruling government. When a dissatisfied group secedes, it creates its own form of government in place of the former ruling government. Secessions are serious maneuvers that lead to, or arise from, military conflict."

The assumptions:

A. "When a dissatisfied group secedes, it creates its own form of government in place of the former ruling government."

WHY? If they've just escaped form one oppressive institution, which only governments can be, why do they immediately want to enslave themselves to another one?

B. "Secessions are serious maneuvers that lead to, or arise from, military conflict."

WHY? Why is it that the only solution human beings are capable of thinking of is the only human activity that has as it's only purpose killing people and destroying property. No war has ever made anything better. America has suffered morally, socially, intellectually, and economically from every war it has ever engaged in, and it's condition today can be traced directly to the consequences of it's three biggest wars. (I'm not arguing against war; I'm not a pacifist; I'm just stating facts.)

Contained in this second assumption is the first, that those who have seceded will automatically have a government. It has to be assumed if the secession is going to lead to war, because only governments go to war with each other.

But suppose those who secede do not do the assumed. Suppose they just do what secession really is, "withdrawing from membership in a group," the group that comprises the oppressed citizens of their past government. Suppose they do not set up a government, and just proceed to live their lives as they choose? Freely!

Whom would the previous government go to war with? All the free individuals who have seceded? And if they all refuse to fight, what will that government do? Arrest the entire populations of several states? The primary reason why governments resist secession is economic. To destroy the economies of those states would defeat the purpose of retaining them.

Is secession the route to revolution? I do not know. I know a lot of states are reasserting their sovereignty, and some are talking about secession, but there is a problem in that too. Most state governments are as oppressive as, or more so than, the federal government. I'm sure secession as a state action is not the route to freedom, just new slave-masters. And the states are governments against which the Federal government could wage war, even if they do not form a confederation or government of some kind. I know if secession includes war, it will be wrong, and more devastating than it will be worth. We've already tried that and know the consequences. It would be worse today.

To be sure, with or without a revolution, violence is coming to this country. The government is bent on removing it's citizen's constitutionally guaranteed right to the means of defending themselves, and when they come for the guns, Americans will use them rather than give them up. Only a real revolution will prevent that eventuality, and a revolution that does not prevent it, is no revolution at all.

— Reginald Firehammer